Whole Milk

Ultra Pasteurized, 64 oz

Our ultra pasteurized organic milk contains all the wholesome goodness you expect from Organic Valley. We start with fresh, whole milk from pastured cows on the organic family farms of our cooperative. The milk is ultra pasteurized and then homogenized. Ultra pasteurization is a special flash heating and cooling technology that keeps milk fresh and nutritious up to three times longer than traditionally pasteurized varieties. Many people prefer this type of milk for its longer shelf life. Ultra pasteurized milk is available in quarts and half gallons.

Organic Counts

Your weekly purchase of 64 oz Ultra Pasteurized Whole Milk prevents the following annually:

4.8 lbs Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizer
1 oz Synthetic Herbicides & Pesticides

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Comments

Mario from Miami on January 1st, 2012

After the pediatrician recommends us not to give extra vitamins to our girl to see if that can help with a kidney condition, we are trying to give non-vitamins-added milk to her. Your "red label" milk is the only one at Publix that don't carry the "vitamins A & D" label added...sometimes. Could you make the difference a little more clear in the packaging? Is it possible to include a "no extra vitamins added" label? I did not know you have both types and once I found at home that I got the wrong one. I thought you stop selling the non-vits!!!.

Thanks for your great product!

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Tracy at Organic Valley

Hi Mario,

Thanks for the great feedback! I'll be sure to pass your suggestion along to our product team.

As a courtesy to our consumers, we do add vitamins to *some* of our whole milks. We have requests both to have them added and to not add them to the whole milk.

Our whole milk with added vitamins is primarily found in the HTST, or regularly pasteurized milk. The ultra pasteurized (UP) whole milk is not fortified with vitamins, with one exception. One ultra pasteurized milk plant does add vitamin D to the whole milk (plant #51-4109). To confirm that your Organic Valley milk product is not fortified with vitamin D, always check the carton label.

NSJain from on December 4th, 2011

I am looking for this milk around where I live but can't seem to find it anywhere (I have looked in all the possible grocery stores in my city and the ones close to it too!) I live in Hackensack, NJ and I could easily find this milk when I lived in Fairfax, VA and Westbury, NY. I want this milk in particular since it has NO vitamin D!! Just pure milk as it's supposed to be! Please help!!

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Shelby from Canton, GA on December 3rd, 2011

Wow! What a blessing this milk has been! When our local creamery stopped carrying straight-from-the-farm milk (pasteurized for human consumption) at their store, I was saddened. Then I found OV, and I cannot be happier!

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Ashley from Silver Spring, MD on November 28th, 2011

I am also disappointed to discover that your ultra pasteurized milk is not fortified with Vitamin D. I love the taste of your milk, but feel we really need to enhance our Vitamin D intake (especially my toddler). I am sad that I will also have to switch brands as my Whole Foods does not carry your regular pasteurized milk.

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Ashley at Organic Valley

Hi Ashley, I'm sorry you are not able to find the version of our whole milk that you prefer. Our reduced fat milks (also lowfat and fat free) are all fortified with vitamin D because of legal requirements. However whole milk is considered to naturally have higher levels of vitamin D, so supplementation is not required. We offer whole milk in both varieties - with and without vitamin D - because we have requests for both.

Tamara from Marysville, WA on October 20th, 2011

Thank you for making this wonderful product. I am a strict vegetarian but not a vegan and this is the only milk I can find without vitamin D3. I am so happy to have regular milk I can drink and not soymilk.

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Susan from Maine on October 11th, 2011

THANK YOU for providing an organic milk without ANY additives--just good ole' plain milk! IF I want or need vitamins I'll take them but object vehemently to 'stuff' being added to our foods--where have our liberties gone? THANK YOU for providing choices. God bless--

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Tabitha from Ohio on August 25th, 2011

Your milk has been a blessing to my toddler! He has a very uncommon condition that makes his body overproduce vitamin D. When his diet contains too much vitamin D and is exposed to direct or indirect UV rays his skin rashes and turns a bright red. It has been wonderful to be able to give my son the milk he wants and also allow him outside to play with his brothers. Thank you so much!

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Ashley from OH on August 2nd, 2011

My husband also has health issues that require him to keep Vitamin D out of his diet. Thank you for continuing to provide the only milk that he can have!

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Danielle from NJ on July 7th, 2011

Thanks for providing a corn-free milk! Phew - now I can drink milk again :-)

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S from Boston, MA on June 17th, 2011

I too was disappointed to discover (after bringing your milk home from the store, of course - shame on me for not reading the label first) that it is not fortified with vitamin D. Since our store doesn't carry your regular pasteurized milk, I guess we'll have to switch brands. I don't know why you wouldn't want vitamin D in your milk - most of us are deficient in this nutrient, and it's so important for kids to get enough. Anyway, I would like to see you fortify this product, but that's just my two cents.

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Angie at Organic Valley

Thanks for your two cents, S. We do have requests in both directions, which is why we offer both, but unfortunately not all stores are able to carry both versions. We do the best we can. :)